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Nick_Beckstead

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Up­dates to the Effec­tive Ven­tures US board

Zachary Robinson🔸Apr 17, 2023, 8:45 PM
80 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

The FTX Fu­ture Fund team has resigned

Nick_BecksteadNov 11, 2022, 2:04 AM
680 points
287 comments1 min readEA link

“Develop An­thro­po­mor­phic AGI to Save Hu­man­ity from It­self” (Fu­ture Fund AI Wor­ld­view Prize sub­mis­sion)

ketanramaNov 5, 2022, 5:57 PM
19 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

“AI pre­dic­tions” (Fu­ture Fund AI Wor­ld­view Prize sub­mis­sion)

ketanramaNov 5, 2022, 5:51 PM
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(medium.com)

“AGI timelines: ig­nore the so­cial fac­tor at their peril” (Fu­ture Fund AI Wor­ld­view Prize sub­mis­sion)

ketanramaNov 5, 2022, 5:45 PM
10 points
0 comments12 min readEA link
(trevorklee.substack.com)

An­nounc­ing the Fu­ture Fund’s AI Wor­ld­view Prize

Nick_BecksteadSep 23, 2022, 4:28 PM
255 points
125 comments13 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

Fu­ture Fund June 2022 Update

Nick_BecksteadJul 1, 2022, 12:50 AM
279 points
24 comments21 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

Fill out this cen­sus of ev­ery­one who could ever see them­selves do­ing longter­mist work — it’ll only take a few mins

80000_HoursJun 21, 2022, 10:49 PM
219 points
37 comments2 min readEA link

Some clar­ifi­ca­tions on the Fu­ture Fund’s ap­proach to grantmaking

Nick_BecksteadMay 10, 2022, 2:42 AM
327 points
61 comments3 min readEA link

Awards for the Fu­ture Fund’s Pro­ject Ideas Competition

Nick_BecksteadMar 24, 2022, 6:14 PM
151 points
18 comments12 min readEA link

The Fu­ture Fund’s Re­grant­ing Program

leopoldFeb 28, 2022, 5:28 PM
120 points
11 comments3 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

The Fu­ture Fund’s Pro­ject Ideas Competition

Nick_BecksteadFeb 28, 2022, 5:27 PM
236 points
726 comments1 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

An­nounc­ing the Fu­ture Fund

Nick_BecksteadFeb 28, 2022, 5:26 PM
366 points
185 comments4 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

Differ­en­tial Tech­nolog­i­cal Devel­op­ment: Some Early Thinking

Nick_BecksteadSep 29, 2015, 10:23 AM
4 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Con­ver­sa­tion with Holden Karnofsky, Nick Beck­stead, and Eliezer Yud­kowsky on the “long-run” per­spec­tive on effec­tive altruism

Nick_BecksteadAug 18, 2014, 4:30 AM
11 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

A rel­a­tively athe­o­ret­i­cal per­spec­tive on as­tro­nom­i­cal waste

Nick_BecksteadAug 6, 2014, 12:55 AM
9 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Will we even­tu­ally be able to colonize other stars? Notes from a pre­limi­nary review

Nick_BecksteadJun 22, 2014, 6:19 PM
30 points
7 comments32 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing dis­aster shelters to in­crease the chances of re­cov­ery from a global catastrophe

Nick_BecksteadFeb 19, 2014, 10:17 PM
24 points
5 comments26 min readEA link

A pro­posed ad­just­ment to the as­tro­nom­i­cal waste argument

Nick_BecksteadMay 27, 2013, 4:00 AM
43 points
0 comments12 min readEA link